Land Acknowledgement
I am grateful and honoured to be guest on the unceded ancestral territory of the Lheidli T’enneh where I am humbled to live, learn, and laugh on this beautiful land as a second-generation cis-gendered Chinese-Canadian woman and educator.
Welcome to my e-Portfolio
Learning by doing. Welcome to my e-portfolio. I am an experiential learner, action researcher, and teacher practitioner. My name is Dr. Christine Ho Younghusband.
I am an Assistant Professor in the School of Education at the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) and sessional instructor at St. Mark’s College at the University of British Columbia (UBC). I have a B.Sc. majoring in Chemistry with concentration in Mathematics from UBC, a B.Ed. in Secondary Education specializing in mathematics, science, and chemistry from UBC, an M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction from Simon Fraser University (SFU), and Ed.D. in Educational Leadership from SFU. My career in BC Education started with teaching secondary mathematics and science in BC public schools, then school trusteeship, sessional instruction at SFU, and Teacher Education at UNBC.
Why this portfolio? I have a passion for teaching, learning, and leadership and the underpinning of my work in BC Education is maintaining a reflective practice. After I left public education in 2010, I was able to maintain a WordPress site as a two-term school trustee, independent educational consultant, and doctoral student to “reflect in” and “reflect on” teaching, learning, and leading. E-Portfolios is one way to articulate one’s learning as they are doing, but also a way to document one’s achievements over time. I’ve had the great fortune to transfer some of my professional learning with e-Portfolios in the following courses:
- EDUC 431 (Education Technology) in 2019
- EDUC 490 (Formative Practicum) in 2019, 2020
- EDUC 491 (Summative Practicum) in 2019, 2020, 2021
- EDUC 405 (Reflective Practice Through Inquiry & Portfolio)
in 2020, 2022, 2023 - EDUC 796 (Portfolio) in in the M.Ed. Program in 2021, 2022, 2023
About this portfolio. This e-Portfolio started in 2019 when I first taught EDUC 431 in 2019, where I had designed the course for Teacher Candidates to meet virtually EdTech BC Educators, write blog entries of what was learned, and create an e-Portfolio that included the Professional Standards for BC Educators and personal exemplars. You will see blog posts from 2019, but you will also see posts and pages that captures my professional career in BC Education. Teacher Candidates will attempt to capture their learning journey in the UNBC TEP and graduate students from the Special Education Program reflects on their learning throughout the M.Ed. Program and present their portfolio to committee as part of their capstone. Both B.Ed. and M.Ed. students under my supervision will use an open sourced version of WordPress via opened.ca, which is FIPPA compliant and FREE!!!
Returning back: Instructor for EDUC 405 – Fall 2022
EDUC 431 was part of the previous 2-year B.Ed. Program, but the program was redesigned and implemented in 2020. EDUC 405 has replaced EDUC 431 in the new 16-month professional B.Ed. Program and weaves throughout the program for the entire 16-months to promote ongoing reflection and personalization. I hope to use this platform to practice, experience, and model what is expected from the B.Ed. portfolio, but will also take liberty to personalize my portfolio.
